Jake Lodwick has committed himself to making videos for the rest of his life.

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14th June 2009

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This is a self-management experiment. Living by myself and reporting to no boss makes it easy to fall into a mindless routine. I have not been living up my potential as an ‘untethered creative person’. My lack of discipline has allowed me to drift into a hazy groove. I need some accountability. Here are my “STANDARDS” for the next week. Each day, I aim to meet all of them, and will keep track of my success or failure. Eat each meal within 1 hour of 9:30, 1:30, & 8:00 One 3-hour creative block One 1-hour book reading block They are pretty ‘low’ standards. The question is, “Even with low standards, am I disciplined enough to stick with a plan for a whole week?” — If yes, next week it may evolve into a slightly more demanding form. I will post the first week’s result here, next Sunday night. By then, there should be twenty-one check marks on there. Do you think I will get a perfect score?

This is a self-management experiment. Living by myself and reporting to no boss makes it easy to fall into a mindless routine. I have not been living up my potential as an ‘untethered creative person’. My lack of discipline has allowed me to drift into a hazy groove. I need some accountability.

Here are my “STANDARDS” for the next week. Each day, I aim to meet all of them, and will keep track of my success or failure.

  • Eat each meal within 1 hour of 9:30, 1:30, & 8:00
  • One 3-hour creative block
  • One 1-hour book reading block

They are pretty ‘low’ standards. The question is, “Even with low standards, am I disciplined enough to stick with a plan for a whole week?” — If yes, next week it may evolve into a slightly more demanding form.

I will post the first week’s result here, next Sunday night. By then, there should be twenty-one check marks on there. Do you think I will get a perfect score?

Tagged: STANDARDS

  1. lnlindsey reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    something like this.
  2. melanyouth reblogged this from buyhercandy and added:
    “rather than telling you what to do, it merely requires that you do something” - this sums up the rather astounding and...
  3. engi reblogged this from nostrich and added:
    This is a very handy experiment. Being an unemployed college student, it is indeed very easy for me to fall into a...
  4. buyhercandy reblogged this from nostrich and added:
    I should implement something like this for my thesis.
  5. nostrich reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    really like Jake’s STANDARDS experiment — save for the annoying capitalisation. Like Jake, I’m relatively untethered...
  6. nubes answered: More or less my kind of favourite routine. Kudos, Sir!
  7. derrekwayne answered: do it dude.
  8. todayi answered: ha! i did this the other night … but mine is way more embarrassing
  9. ferio answered: good idea & good luck
  10. slyology answered: Yes you will. These standards can be met.
  11. smfa reblogged this from jakelodwick
  12. kingdomcomethemovie answered: good luck!
  13. Babs answered: Yes you will
  14. robertmacarthur answered: no. i think you’ll fuck up the eating schedule
  15. goosebumpmusic answered: for one week sure. but will you keep it up?
  16. steampoweredmedia answered: Depends on your definition of “creative”
  17. zehnuhr answered: reminds me of this: sebastianwaters.com/pos…
  18. missingmuse answered: The biggest accomplishment here would be continuing the experiment after a non-perfect score. Good luck, Jake.
  19. lifeasamusical answered: Yes
  20. chrisnow answered: You won’t. Regardless, it’s a flawed system. What is your unit of measure for a creative block? How creative is disciplined creativity?
  21. judyprays answered: flamebright.com/PTPages…
  22. adamgotterer answered: Eating at time intervals is something society created. You should eat when you are hungry. People hunted and are when they could. Evolution.
  23. oats answered: I think you can do anything you measure.
  24. carolinemartin answered: I think the hardest bit will be eating regularly. It’s so easy to put off eating because you know you’ll have to do it eventually.
  25. charliepinto reblogged this from jakelodwick
  26. elephantsandcupcakes answered: have you seen “if i” by demetri martin? he also tried a life point system.
  27. clairewrites reblogged this from superamit and added:
    I can’t remember the last time I sat down for an hour to read a book. Think I’ll start today.
  28. nicholaspacheco answered: yes
  29. heynic answered: Seems very much like something that can be pulled off if your truly serious about it. So ya i think you can get a perfect score.
  30. lystra reblogged this from ronenreblogs
  31. ltwp answered: As somebody settling in to the summer ‘blahs,’ this is a good plan. I hope you stick with your schedule better than I did.
  32. vanyavanya reblogged this from ronenreblogs and added:
    Vanya needs to try something like this…
  33. midnightbreeze answered: I think that you will.
  34. superamit reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    Great idea, Jakob. I’m gonna try this (sans meals, which...don’t care about), too.
  35. ponbop answered: ben franklin did that for his 13 virtues: bit.ly/19GSzp. If he can do it, you can too (though i think his was a lifelong pursuit)
  36. nic-rad answered: I don’t know you, but I think this is fantastic. Good luck.
  37. ronenreblogs reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
    tricky part is being your own employee....public accountability of this experiment.
  38. henryv answered: to be is to do.
  39. deplorableword answered: Possibly, how will you reward yourself after clearing the first week?
  40. bendelaney answered: Yeah. I think you will. And I think this is a really good idea. I may do something similar (with the addition of a curfew).
  41. brokenbottleboy answered: I think you’ll manage it for a week but beyond that it becomes challenging.
  42. kayfabe answered: I think you’ll meet them. But why the goal of hour long meals? Do you usually eat slow?
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